In my flurry of troubleshooting yesterday I did several things all at once including removing uTorrent, reseting Firewall defaults, and a few other things. I also ran the following commands in command prompt as admin.
ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /registerdns
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew
netsh winsock reset
After a reboot it worked fine. For a day. Today it was doing it all over again. I've noticed that when the problem is occurring the the usage graph under the performance tab in Task Manager has very random spikes from 0 to varying values, usually under 100kbps, and never above 1mbps. I ran only the commands above again today and it fixed it again after a reboot. Now the usage graph is normal and consistently has a signal and of way higher speeds.
What do these commands accomplish and any idea what might be the root issue? I expect I'll have to do this every time I have a problem, so guess I need to learn batch files.
ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /registerdns
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew
netsh winsock reset
After a reboot it worked fine. For a day. Today it was doing it all over again. I've noticed that when the problem is occurring the the usage graph under the performance tab in Task Manager has very random spikes from 0 to varying values, usually under 100kbps, and never above 1mbps. I ran only the commands above again today and it fixed it again after a reboot. Now the usage graph is normal and consistently has a signal and of way higher speeds.
What do these commands accomplish and any idea what might be the root issue? I expect I'll have to do this every time I have a problem, so guess I need to learn batch files.